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Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law (www.pcgamer.com)
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The loot box ban will go into effect in March.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Either that or we ban loot boxes for everyone — which is the better choice, IMO.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Super hard disagree. I do like me some Magic the Gathering and CCGs in general. If anything I'm say more concerned with the increasing trend of real world blind pack collectibles aimed exclusively at kids than I am with online loot boxes, which is something most of the industry has abandoned anyway after the panic went viral.

    But nope, absolutely not. Loot boxes aren't worth forcing online age verification any more than porn was a few months ago when we were all mad because the UK did it. Parental controls? Absolutely. Mandatory identification? Not at all.

    And absolutely not, I am an adult and if I want to gamble online, let alone buy loot boxes in a videogame, I absolutely should be able to do that.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don’t care. Loot boxes are gambling, which is addictive and frankly evil.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    So is alcohol and I will have a beer regardless of what you or anybody else thinks about it. Screw you, you don't get to baby my addictions, I'm a big boy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    And guess what: you need to show ID to purchase alcohol. Great analogy.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    And we do if you try to buy porn in a bookstore. We still don't like upending the entire framework of the Internet for the sake of replicating that online. Which is exactly what's happening here. The loot box thing is an afterthought that mandates a specific age rating for games that include them and nothing else. Porn is the main focus of the legislation.

    And I disagree on implementing internet-wide ID checks for the sake of keeping kids away from porn. Hard.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The UK has challenge 25 laws that mean that you only need to show ID if you look like you're under 25. So no you don't always need to provide ID to purchase alcohol, at least not in puritan shitholes.

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